Sarjak Patel

[Amit Kumar @Amitkumar3620]

@makemytrip shown utter irresponsibility towards customer. Their grievance team couldn't resolve #Ebola related cancellation grievance in 4 months forcing me to approach Consumer Court with hope of refund. Never use MMT as an intermediary service provider. @jagograhakjago

[Sarjak Patel @SarjakPatel]

@grok @IndiatvRishi @Mahindra_Auto @anandmahindra @Raajeev_Chopra Can you share the link to the statement from Mahindra?

[Simo Ahava @SimoAhava]

“First Party Mode”, a new feature from Google that allows routing Google Tag requests through a same-origin setup, is now in Beta.

https://t.co/T7wGhqi2k3

I’m working on an article that explores the inner mechanisms of this.

#measure #google

[Josh Olin @JD_2020]

🚨 How To Spot an A.I. Grift 🚨

If you've ever noticed a sudden influx of endorsements for a new AI product, here's a structured approach to help discern the grifters from the genuine:

Comment Section Shutdown: A promotional video without the option to comment is a major red flag. It often means they're avoiding public critique, which I and others are ready to provide. Being preemptively blocked by these companies is a common experience for those of us who expose these schemes on the regular.
Unnatural Engagement Metrics: Engagement numbers that are too round or disproportionate, like exactly 25K likes, are often purchased to simulate popularity. This video likely bought 2 million views, added 25K likes, and then gathered around 89,000 actual views by manipulating social algorithms.

Understanding the Scam

Here's what's typically happening: Small companies (or individual grifters) are over-promising and under-delivering, packaging basic large language model (LLM) capabilities with a few simple system prompts into a device or service, and then selling it at a steep markup. In this example, it's a cheaply fabricated device with a $199 one-time fee. But beware, a low-cost device offering high-end AI capabilities is currently unrealistic.

The Dual Deceit

Quick Cash Grab: These companies are not in it for the long haul. They're looking to make fast money without investing in substantial development or meaningful research.
Investment Baiting: They aim to create maximum hype to draw in venture capital and angel investors, exploiting the fear of missing out / FOMO effect.

The Role of AI "Gurus" and Influencers

Some influencers may be innocently caught up, while others are complicit, receiving kickbacks for fueling the hype instead of calling for genuine investment into worthy products or individuals aiming to make a real difference in the field.

This trend is likely to escalate, as AI and algorithmic curation can incentivize even ethical individuals to adopt these tactics out of necessity. It's an impending arms race, pushing everyone towards questionable marketing strategies to stay relevant.

Actionable Advice

For the individual: Keep tabs on influencers who promoted this product. Add them to a watchlist for questionable judgment or ethics.

For the social platforms (like X and YouTube): It's high time we talk about some fundamental shifts in the economics of the attention-hustle. Algorithmically curated reward needs to be introduced that encourages long-tail value conversion over quick-hit flash-in-the-pan reply-guy viral feedback loops. This is the only way we create a paradigm that isn't a race-to-the-bottom tailspin of doom.

A Call to Action 🎯

Let's challenge this behavior. Tag an AI "expert" or influencer who endorsed this product in this example in the @ replies below. It's time for accountability.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

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[Manchester United @ManUtd]

UP THE REDSSSSSS!!! ❤️‍🔥

#MUFC || #MUNCHE

[Mayank Bhardwaj @mayank245]

This is new India!

[Charles Farina @CharlesFarina]

Nice to see some updates to a core component of GA4.

Separate, I'd love for Google to revisit how sessions are created/calculated in GA4. Need to move past the session_start design that produces a variety of oddities with metric calculations, sub/roll-up properties, etc.

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

David de Gea for Manchester United.

🏆 Premier League
🏆 Europa League
🏆 FA Cup
🏆 League Cup (x2)
🌟 PFA Team Of The Year (x5)
🧤 PL Golden Glove (x2)
🏟 Most games by a goalkeeper
🧱 Most clean sheets in Utd's history

A United legend, and it's not even arguable.

Thank you and good luck for the future. 🇪🇸❤️

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Nothing but respect and admiration 🫶

#MUFC

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

When a video of ours keeps being forwarded to friends & comes back to me too, then it means it’s truly struck a chord… Once again… here’s a toast to Tech Moms..:

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | In the past few years, there have been many advances in AI- Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, there have been even more momentous development in another AI- America and India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the joint sitting of the US Congress

[Google Analytics @googleanalytics]

17 days to the Universal Analytics sunset! 📅 If you use Universal Analytics conversions for bidding in Google Ads, your campaign conversions will go to zero after July 1.

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[Charles Farina @CharlesFarina]

Some really nice updates have just been added to GA4 Audience Builder:
- Item Scoped Dimensions/Metrics
- Expanded Operators (match types)
- Match Between Dates
- Low-engaged sessions

The expanded operators are my favorite part of this release!

[Charles Farina @CharlesFarina]

Many of the GA4 API limits have received massive boosts.

People from @MeasureSlack are sharing that many of their GA4 reports in Looker Studio are now working once again

https://t.co/0WHDbpjH3y

[Luka Cempre @Lukaslo]

An underused #BigQuery billing feature that can save you 10x on your storage cost is switching your dataset from a logical to a physical storage model.

Particularly for @googleanalytics data which is easy to compress (tons of columns with repeating values).

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Sir Alex Ferguson said this back in 2015 👀

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

A huge honour 💪🇧🇷

Congratulations, @Casemiro — from everyone at United 💛

#MUFC